Journal Junction for October 24

Editor’s note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as “Letters to the Editor,”?which is a separate forum. The Journal’s classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Martinsburg:

To the caller of a couple weeks ago, to watch pets in the home: Lost your ad. Please call 304-229-9588.

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From Inwood:

I’m upset that the Mountain State Apple Harvest parade didn’t select the Republicans’ President float as the ultimate grand supreme WINNER! Way to go! Also, trying to use a fake story about your kid crying is ridiculous!

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From Berkley County:

I agree with the caller about the politicians. We need to limit their terms to eight years, then sit out four years.

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From Spring Mills:

Perhaps before the BOE moves on to another project, they should visit the new Spring Mills High School to assess the fact that the school is not completed as of yet. So how did they come in under budget?

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From Martinsburg:

The solution for persistent Journal Junction cyberbullies who dominate the discussion with intentionally hateful comments is simply to ignore them. Don’t respond to them, don’t argue, don’t even dignify their postings by hitting the “disagree” button. They are just seeking attention, and when attention is removed, they will give up and the discussion will become the more constructive dialogue that The Journal indicates is the Junction’s original purpose.

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From Martinsburg:

When my grandkids told me they discovered a pile of apples covered with bees in the woods behind my house, I thought it was a compost pile. Little did I know the danger they were in by possibly being mistaken for a deer. Isn’t there somewhere else in Berkeley County to hunt besides behind a church?

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From Shenandoah Junction:

President Obama promised that we could keep our healthcare insurance if we liked it. Well, I liked my healthcare coverage, but my policy was cancelled as a result of Obamacare. I was forced to buy a new policy that is more expensive and covers less than my former policy. Are there other West Virginians who have lost their coverage too?

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From Martinsburg:

Most reasonable folks, especially parents and soldiers, know that rights go hand-in-hand with responsibility. Our founding politicians left us a long list of rights and a system of self-government so that we may exercise our rights responsibly. Interest groups and phony patriots who demand rights without responsibility now threaten our rights, our peace, our national unity and functional self-government – while most stay quiet. Time to wise up!

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From Inwood:

Making my annual festival visit to Martinsburg this week I was embarrassed and disappointed by the float making fun of our commander-in-chief and our president. This was not the time and place for this kind of juvenile behavior. Backward people with no class and no common sense at all. These folks need to volunteer or something; they must have way too much time on their hands.

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From Opequon Hill:

More taxes means the needy will depend more on government handouts. Less money to the charities. The needy aren’t exposed to the goodness of charitable providers and churches, thus no interaction with better-than-average morals and a lesser chance of becoming a better and self-sufficient person. It snowballs to basic survivability and gang mentality.